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Plan 9 from Outer Space is a 1959 independently made American black-and-white science fiction-horror film, produced, written, directed, and edited by Ed Wood. It stars Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Tor Johnson, and "Vampira" (Maila Nurmi) and is narrated by Criswell. It also posthumously bills Bela Lugosi as a guest-star (silent footage of the actor had been shot by Wood for another, unfinished film just prior to Lugosi's death in August 1956). Other guest-stars are Hollywood...
Topics: horror, science fiction, ed wood
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Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Set to the 1920's jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, Sita Sings the Blues earns its tagline as "the Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told."
Topics: sita, blues, ramayana, nina paley, animation
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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 – 1940)
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The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, the novel depicts narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. The novel was inspired by a youthful romance Fitzgerald had with a socialite, and by parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922. Opening lines: "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me...
Topics: American novel, fiction, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby, West Egg, East Egg, Daisy Buchanan, Tom...
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